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im going to try making jelly i can eat on toast..im trying to decide
method..gelatin...pectin or natural...

KROM

"Alice Faber" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "krom" > wrote:
>
>> my bladder hurt a bit so i normally use cranberry juice to fix it...but
>> you
>> goto the "juice" isle and its all blends and cocktails with sugar and
>> hfcs.
>>
>> So i bought a frozen bag of plain washed craberries put them in a blender
>> with water liquid splenda a splace lemon juice and a tsp xylitol and
>> erythritol.
>>
>> the entire blender contained 130 calories and after the fiber is counted
>> maybe 12 net carbs..so i wasnt suprised when my 6 ounce glass didnt
>> flicker
>> my meter but did fix my bladder and was better tasting then those store
>> juices.
>>
>> the rest of the blender i put in a tray in the freezer and made cranberry
>> sorbet..even my wife likes it keeps stealing spoonfulls from the
>> freezer..lol
>>
>> dunno why i hadnt thought of this before.
>>
>> i tried to make cooked one before using whole cranberries that wasnt very
>> good.
>>
>> this was easy and i could see adding gelatin to make jelly .
>>
>> KROM

>
> Sounds great, and far better than the cranberry extract capsules I keep
> around for similar reasons. And, even better, cranberries are coming
> into season, so we should be able to get fresh ones soon.
>
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